Brenley is One!

My sweet little niece turned One Year Old on Sunday. Click here to see some cute pictures of her!

my 3 under 2

Just as I predicted, Avery is in love with Canon. Of course Atley likes him as well, but doesn't try to meet his needs and want to hold him like Avery does. Even as I am typing (with one hand since I'm feeding Canon at the same time) Avery has her favorite baby doll and has put her in the bouncy seat and swing, wrapped her up in Canon's baby blanket, and now is wrapping her beanie monkey up in the blanket as well. She has always been such a little mother. There have already been multiple times that Canon has cried and Avery has run over to him, or gotten up on the bed to peek into his pack n play, and tried to put his paci back in for him. I'm trying to be relaxed about this since Avery has also had a snotty cold and I'm sure has dirty hands.... I guess Canon will have some good immunity!

Avery loving her brother


Both girls holding (or squishing) Canon


They were kissing him

Atley with Canon. Don't worry, he wasn't screaming, he was actually yawning!


Let's tickle him!

Atley is leaving and Avery is going to pick him up...or just let him fall into the corner of the chair.


I love him!

Baby Shower

Two weeks ago I had a super sweet baby shower up at the ZOE house. I was so blessed by so many with gifts and sweet blessings written for Canon. Phillip and I have received so much from so many people are truly our "cup is overflowing!" Thank you to those that came and helped and watched as I frantically opened SO many gifts. I had two (well 3 really) baby showers with the girls. One in Dallas, and one here. But I was in the hospital so I didn't get to go to either. So they had a mini one up at the hospital for me there, which was so sweet. So this was fun to actually be AT my baby shower this time, and get to bring along a healthy 9lb baby boy! We are so happy little Canon arrived on his DUE DATE, healthy and with no problems. What a blessing! Here are some more pictures from the shower.


Julie and I


My favorite, M&M's! Of course they were blue and brown to match the theme!


My mom with Canon, sleeping! He slept the entire time and then wanted to eat as soon as I finished. I used my "hooter hider", which my wonderful sister made for me, and everyone went on and on about how great that thing is....and it is!



My mother in love reading a few scriptures and doing a sweet job of affirming me in front of everyone. It was so sweet!

They are all asleep....

I'm taking this moment to update my blog with some new random pictures of our past week. I know it is really common to take a million pictures of your firstborn and not so many of your second, or third children. Well...that is already happening. I'm really trying sweet Canon, I am!


Here is Canon's hair. I barely comb it up after washing it, and it stays like this for days! I don't put anything in it either. It's like grass growing right off the top of his head :)

On Sunday we went to church for the first time, and also to a wedding. Canon did great and was so cute in his little outfit, which we borrowed from Noah.

Yes, his hair is almost blonde when it is washed! We went to Columbia on Saturday for the Mizzou game. Noone went to the game because it was freezing, so we all stayed at the Willetts (our dear friends/semi-parents) and again, Canon did great all day! Here he is in his Tigers outfit sleeping with daddy before the big car ride.

Avery and Atley are still really into books these days. They are reading to themselves lately and babble words as they flip the pages, its so cute.

The girls are playing with Lilly. Avery has also started going up to Lilly and giving her hugs.

Canon went with us last week to vote. He wore this onsie in hopes to sway some voters by his cuteness :)

I had a baby shower last week and got TONS of great stuff! Here I am about to go through it all at home and organize it! My favorite thing...:)

Aunt Lauren holding Canon for the first time at the baby shower. :)
That is all for now. Have a great Wednesday!
Shelly

we are making it

my mom left tuesday and i've had a couple of days now on my "own" with my many small children. Today was actually my first day all by myself since Wednesday my mother in law comes over to help at dinner/bath/bed time and Thursday mornings are Phillip's mornings off. So other than Avery spilling hot tea on herself and both girls having major poopies at the same time as Canon, and Canon going through FOUR outfits because he's peeing out of his newborn diapers (too small)...we had a relatively great day. Phillip came home for dinner and then went back to ZOE for the night so it is still just me here with my little ones. Canon is due for a feeding any minute and then I'm off to bed as quick as I can. Just like clockwork...he's crying and so is Avery!! I'm off! Until later....Shelly

New Pictures

Canon is doing great! He is becoming a great sleeper, and has always been a great eater. Nursing is going well and this is a huge answer to prayer. He is adjusting quite well to our little family. The girls are having fun with Nana here and it has been a HUGE help for me. They like to look at Canon and take his things, but that is about it for now. Here are some recent pictures from this past week.

Atley and Avery about to go on a walk with Nana. They are collecting pine cones for our Christmas decorations.


Cool Cat Atley

Phillip promised the girls a bubble bath the other night. Once the bubbles were in the tub, they didn't want anything to do with them. They scooted to the end of the tub and were trying to wipe away the bubbles. Needless to say, he drained the whole tub and started over, NO bubbles this time :)

Here is Canon in the hospital, about to get his clothes on to come home! Our discharge went really easy that day because I had all my papers signed and ready by 5am. I don't think I slept at all in the hospital with my nurse, the baby's nurse, the PCA, the Pediatrician, the Anesthesiologist, my OB, and just about anyone else constantly checking on me and charting my every up and down. So what else do you do at 5am? Why not work on getting out of the hospital a day early?

There is nothing like college football in a hospital room :)

Nana and Atley, Grammie and Avery.

Yeah! Let's go home! Don't you just want to kiss those cheeks!

Sleeping in his "burrito" as Leah calls it :)


This was his second outfit on this day. I had some preemie diapers left over from the girls and thought I would try to use them up. Well, after 5 minutes in it his clothes were soaking wet! He's moving on to size 1!

Mommy and Canon


Daddy and Canon

His first Mohawk!
The end. Love to all!

Canon is Huge!

Hey Everyone. Well the past 16 hours have been long and exciting. Everything Angie said is true. Shelly worked so hard. She was dilated to a 3 when we got to the hospital at 1:00am and by 3:00am she was already at a 9. Shelly so wanted to do this without a epidural but was so tired and in so much pain that we decided to take it. And I am so glad we did. She pushed for 3 hours and was having contractions every 1 to 2 minutes. After three hours of hard work, they told Shelly what she didn't want to hear. They began to prep her for a c-section. She was exhausted and frustrated but was still amazing. I was so impressed with Shelly and she really was incredible and gave it all she had. They took her in and the surgery went great. Afterwards, Shelly was sewn up and allowed to spend some time with Canon. Canon latched right on to Shelly and the nursing is going great so far. Keep praying for Shelly in this because we really want this to go well. Please also be praying for Shelly's healing. She is pretty beat up from 3 hard hours of pushing and having her stomach cut back open.

I think the doctors said he was the best looking baby they have ever seen in the history of the hospital. Here are a few of the first pictures.

I was trying to get Shelly fired up of what might be happening when she would have to start pushing.

Canon is a big boy. This is him being weighed at 9lbs. 3ounces.

This is our first family picture with Canon. Mommy couldn't really strike a pose because they were still sewing her together on the other side of the sheet.

Canon with Grandpa and Grammie Hunter
Canon with Pops and Nana Ruth
Canon checking the room out while he is with his mommy.
The girls were so excited to see Shelly. They couldn't quite understand why mommy was laying in the hospital bed but they just wanted to be with her and love on her.